What do you value more ?

What do you value more ?

I need your opinions and thoughts. All eras of the nba are always compared. For me, it is a strange comparison because the trainings, the materials and the technicity have been trough a lot of improvement. So for me it is difficult to compare someone who played in a time where they were playing with basic Converse shoes and needed to have a work outside the NBA/ABA career and someone who plays with the best equipment we have nowadays. Also, I wonder which era was the more physical : before, the rules were more permissive with hard contacts but now it seems that the average player must be in an incredible shape to play.

So my questions are the following : is it harder to play with bad equipment and bad training or to play with much better equipments and training but with a lot more technicity and competition ? Do you think older player would still be great in today's NBA or just an average player or an average all-star ? Do you think actual player could still perform with bad equipment ? Do you think that it is more physical now ?

Thanks for your views : )